Willem Einthoven
1860
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1927
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Kingdom of the Netherlands
native language: Dutch
languages spoken, written or signed: Dutch
educated at: Utrecht University
occupation: inventor, physician, physiologist, university teacher
award received: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Foreign Member of the Royal Society
position held: rector magnificus of Leiden University
Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch medical doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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